{"id":66633,"date":"2021-11-26T23:58:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T23:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/?p=66633"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T12:40:36","slug":"no-116-climate-protection-in-esgravatadouro-caldas-de-monchiquewhy-not-become-an-active-member-of-our-botanic-forest-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/short-stories-en\/no-116-climate-protection-in-esgravatadouro-caldas-de-monchiquewhy-not-become-an-active-member-of-our-botanic-forest-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"N\u00ba 116 – Climate protection in Esgravatadouro \u2013 Caldas de Monchique
Why not become an active member of our Botanic Forest Garden<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 27th November 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When winter arrives in the Monchique mountains, all life slows down a little, and the first rains turn the soil humid. Every year, at exactly this time we start planting our new biodiverse mixed forest on the areas destroyed by a forest fire in 2018: a major challenge and a present to the generations coming after us. In our own little nursery we have taken out time to prepare the many different seedlings for this moment, raising them over two, three or more years in planting pots. Now is the time to gift every little tree its own favourable place. This needs careful preparation, as every species of tree has its own requirements. There are plots with good black humid soil and others that harbour lots of stones and sand or clay and where the rain water quickly trickles down into deeper layers of soil or seeps down slowly.<\/p>\n

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How about being a part of our team, planting trees and installing a sprinkler system. Esgravatadouro includes warm and cold, humid and dry places, some protected from the wind and others fully exposed to it – there are tree species that don\u2019t like wind and others that are less sensitive. A tree planted today should be happy in its place for as many hundreds of years as possible. It\u2019s s a major task that we\u2019ve set ourselves with the Botanical Forest Garden. For a tree, once planted, should remain there for ever, its roots providing firm footing, drawing its liquid nutrition for survival from the depth of the soil. We\u2019ll make sure a tree has everything it needs for a good life in Monchique. Would you like to learn how to do this and become part of our team of volunteers?<\/p>\n